MINNEAPOLIS - Former Saginaw Valley State University coach Jerry Kill is both rewarding the University of Minnesota student section and attracting more with an offer for this Saturday's game.

Free hot dogs.

Kill, who signed a seven-year contract earlier this week to coach Minnesota, has asked that Saturday's game be "Student Appreciation Day" with free hot dogs, chips and candy for up to 4,000 students who come to the Gophers' game against Iowa.

Minnesota is 1-6 this season. Students will be allowed in at 12:15 p.m. for the 2:30 p.m. game. Kill will greet and thank the students personally.

Kill coached at SVSU from 1994 to 1998 and was 38-14.

startribune.com: "Those kids have been good to us and taking care of us, and you know,
we're not doing very well," Kill said. "So I said, 'Let's reward them.'
So we are going to feed them lunch on game day. They deserve that."